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• Social transitions are expected effects in the context of a changing socio-political and socio-technical model; in order to face them, responsibility is expected to be shared between the different actors in the process, mainly those who have the weight of delineating and defining the new paths to follow: governments (at all levels) and also those who have to implement the new socio-economic frameworks: the business sector. As a theoretical framework, New Institutionalism in Sociology helps us to propose an understanding of the phenomenon. In this transition towards change, it is desirable that the burden of the transformation towards another model does not fall solely on those who are most exposed to its effects (workers), nor is it distributed and affects those who are usually most vulnerable to structural adjustments (young people, women, the elderly, the long-term unemployed, people with some condition of exclusion: discrimination based on ethnicity or origin, disability, irregular immigration).
  Spain, along with Europe, has been facing profound structural changes in its production models for decades, with transformative consequences in the negative sense of job destruction and at the same time reorientation and reconversion, opening horizons of opportunity to provide alternatives to sectors and people vulnerable to the changes. In the current context of the climate crisis, together with the energy crisis, there is a perceived lack of effective and agile responses from political actors to increasingly urgent demands to remedy and not only to alleviate the consequences of a hyper-consumerist, ultra-decentralised and technified model, detached from its regional and local impacts at the social, community and also individual, gender and generational levels.
  The Just Transition agreements that accompany the decarbonisation process and the energy transition in Spain are an example of an inclusive socio-political proposal and a multilevel actor dynamiser. They are policies and actions that propose a sustainable, inclusive and multilevel transition model, which involves the actors as agents and protagonists of change. They are agreements that integrate the set of European good practices to minimise the impact of the closure of large mining infrastructures (mainly coal mines and thermal power plants); adapting and incorporating the proposals towards socio-technical change on a green path of ecological sustainability, offering a strategic vision, with a focus on innovation and a cross-cutting notion of justice.
  In this framework, the just transition model has given meaning to successive attempts at the level of socio-political proposals to respond to and safeguard the profound productive reconversion at the socio-technical level, gathering the demands of the affected sectors: alternatives to companies and jobs; offers of community cohesion and sustainability.
  The inclusive and transformative proposal of the 2030 Agenda to "leave no one behind" has become transversal to the design of policies and political actions aimed at ensuring the viability of vulnerable territories in transition. It is a framework of justice that recognises the debtors and creditors of the transition to the new model, so it is necessary to look at the intersection between action and transformation, the place that the actors and sectors involved occupy and must occupy.
  This special session is presented as a space for academic reflection that aims to generate knowledge on policies linked to sustainability transitions, just transition, territorial structuring, social inclusion and collective resilience in communities and territories in transition processes.
  The coordinators of this session are part of the Multidisciplinary Group on Socioeconomics and Sustainability: environmental accounting, circular economy, corporate and resources (http://ecocircular.unizar.es/), are researchers at the University Institute for Research on Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS) and are currently working on the project called Energy transition in Spanish coal regions: Innovation, resilience and justice (INNO-REJUST), (ref. PID2020-114211RB-I00).
  
  
• Aims
  To generate a proactive space for reflection that offers innovative ideas for interpreting sustainability transitions in terms of inclusive and sustainable political action.
  Contribute to a systematisation of knowledge that operates as a unifying force for research linked to just transition policies, territorial structuring, social inclusion, collective resilience in communities and territories in transition processes.
  To gather proposals that incorporate gender as a transversal axis of analysis in transition processes and generation as a key to proactive action.
  
  
• Contributions
  Taking the process of just transition and the decarbonisation of the economy in Spain as a reference, the coordinators expect proposals aligned with the five key words of the Session, which are part of the three defining axes of INNOREJUST. Proposals can be based on experiences of implementing socio-technical and socio-political change; analysis and reflections on the imbalances that transitions entail in environments that are more vulnerable demographically - rural - or socially - urban; research studies based on other geographical environments or other socio-political contexts; reflections on innovation and collective resilience as a factor of cohesion and sustainability..
  
  Key Words:
  1.- Policy innovation and good practices in the energy transition. 2.- Employment policies and impacts on the territory in the decarbonisation. 3.- Role and vision of the actors in the socio-technical regime change. 4.- Participation of social actors in the implementation of the change. 5. Social innovation and socio-cultural change for sustainable development.
  
  

(2). Social aspects of security and defense
Chairs. Francisco José Trujillo Pacheco. Licenciado en Psicología. Doctorando en Sociología de las Políticas Públicas y Sociales con la tesis “Democracia, ejército y políticas públicas: liderazgo y formación en la Academia General Militar en el siglo XX”. Comandante de Artillería. Profesor en la Academia General Militar. 762777@unizar.es María Vílchez Vivanco. Licenciada en Sociología y Licenciada en Ciencia Política y de la administración. Profesora del Departamento de Ciencia Política y de la Administración de la Universidad de Granada y colaboradora de la Universidad de Zaragoza. mvilchezv@ugr.es

• We find ourselves in an interconnected and interdependent world, in a network society as Castell indicated. Any issue that happens in one corner of the world can affect the reality and development of the opposite corner. This interconnected society should not be understood by social researchers as something valuable, positive or negative, it should only be seen as that research object that requires our gaze and today more than ever, this analysis is necessary.
  International interdependence is the mutual dependence that exists between countries in terms of their economic and political relations. This means that countries cannot act independently of each other and that the decisions of one country usually have effects on others.
  International interdependence is an increasingly important reality in a world in which countries are increasingly connected. This is because trade, investment, technology and information are moving faster and more easily crossing borders. This leads us to reflect on the idea of shared security, there is no possibility of establishing security standards if it is not in collaboration.
  International interdependence can be beneficial for countries, as it can boost economic growth and development. It can also help countries deal with common challenges, such as climate change.
  However, it can also have negative effects, such as when the decisions of one country have unintended consequences for others, but as indicated before our main objective is the analysis of that reality.
  International interdependence is an increasingly important reality in today's world. Countries need to take this fact into account when making economic and political decisions, as their decisions may have consequences for other countries.
  The conflict in Ukraine has changed the plans of many states, especially the European ones, which have found themselves with a war that has changed the development of the security perspective they had. It is not only the approaches to security issues, it is how the different actions that have been carried out have ended up affecting practically all areas of social life. Directly or indirectly, the conflict has led to a shortage of energy, an increase in fuel prices, an increase in the CPI, an increase in military spending... to talk about all this is to talk about public policies.
  And we cannot lose sight of the international perspective that affects the national one. Spain's membership of international organizations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or the European Union, among others, entails a commitment to collaboration.
  These organizations indicated above have been strengthened after the conflict as international entities. Before February 2022, it can be said that both NATO and the EU were facing their lowest hours. Confidence in its action and capacity was in decline, the departure of the United Kingdom from the EU, the economic crisis, its apparent inability to solve economic problems, was leading to the distrust of its own members. NATO, with the detachment that the United States was proposing to the organization, led one to think that its capacity for action was scarce and that even the objectives it pursued when it was born had been fulfilled and its existence no longer made sense.
  But from one moment to the next, reality changes and the commitment of Spain and international organizations becomes strong, ranks close, International Law appears with force, Europe receives immigrants by welcoming them, helping militarily and configuring new social scenarios.
  The panorama of the role played by the Armed Forces should not be ignored. An analysis of this can be carried out as a whole, in reference to how to rearrange them, structure, organization, but one cannot lose sight of the issues that refer to each one of the members. This is the case of knowing the issues of conciliation, promotion, family relationship, the perception of their work, the characteristics as a professional group, etc.
  Security and defense are important in an interconnected world because there are many dangers that can lurk at any time. Technology has advanced so much that criminals can do things that were previously unthinkable, such as hack into security systems, steal personal information, or even control devices remotely. This means that it is more important than ever to protect yourself and be prepared for any eventuality.
  Another major issue is the development of technology and communications. It seems that now more than ever any citizen is the object of a disinformation strategy such as those that occur with fake news. A single citizen can give spies access to network systems that can break security systems, steal information or blackmail States. And all this through devices that are always with us and in which we trust more and more with daily matters.
  Undoubtedly, analyzing this type of matter leads to a better knowledge of reality, so that more appropriate measures can be taken and the objective pursued can be achieved more easily.
  
  
• Aims
  This group seeks to generate a group of researchers interested in security and defense issues from the field of sociology. At present, security issues are in vogue, and those related to security in relation to the Armed Forces have taken on an importance that had diminished in recent decades. One cannot lose sight of the importance for Aragon of the different military enclaves present in the territory, which affect its own configuration and development. The province of Zaragoza is one of the most important in Spain in terms of units and military personnel. This has a significant social, political and economic impact. To specify the objectives in specific aspects, it can be said that the proposal of this group is intended to:
  - Make known the reality of the impact of the Armed Forces.
  - Expose the problems in relation to Public Security and Defense Policies.
  - Know the reality of daily life in the Armed Forces in relation to the civilian population and internally.
  - Establish interconnections in security and defense issues between the national and international levels.
  - Know the importance of international organizations in relation to security and defense.
  
  
• Contributions:
  Contributions are expected from a social analysis perspective that deal with the reality of public policies that are developed both nationally and internationally in matters of security and defense. Communications will be received from members of the Public Administration and members of the Security Corps and Forces, from professionals who work in the field, from researchers on these topics and from students. In relation to the profile of the contributions, these will be of a scientific nature, regardless of the research method used, qualitative or quantitative. A level of relevance and a deliberative character will be required to promote the level of the working group being considered and the conference. The geographical areas to which the investigations are limited can be national or international, although those that refer to the Aragonese regional analysis from an internationalist perspective will prevail.
  
  
• Key Words:
  Public politics. Security. Defense. Society. Synergy
  
  

(3). Public policies and the challenges of digitalization: theoretical reflections from informed approaches.
Chairs: Jesús Carreras Aguerri: Doctor en Sociología. Juan de la Cierva Researcher at the Crímina Centre for Crime Research and Prevention. Mario Santisteban Galarza. PhD student at the University of the Basque Country. Department of Business Law and Civil Law

• Digitalization shapes all aspects of social coexistence. Public debates are held in cyber places such as social networks, where citizens share their perspectives in a global forum. Entertainment is moving from the analogue to the digital world, where content from other semi-professional users ("influencers" or "streamers") is being "consumed" instead of content from traditional media such as radio or television. Users spend their time in new digital spaces, such as multiplayer video games or substitutes for the expected metaverse, where the digital experience aims to come closer and closer to interaction in the physical world.
  In addition, new technologies based on algorithmic or Artificial Intelligence systems, also aim to revolutionize the interactions in the physical world. As the European Commission points out, Artificial Intelligence will improve healthcare, increase the efficiency of agriculture, contribute to climate change mitigation, and generally increase the security of Europeans. Indeed, the use of facial recognition systems or other tools to help inform judgements about the dangerousness of individuals in the administration of justice and law enforcement is already being considered. 
  These technologies, while presenting benefits to society, also pose a threat to the principles that build our social coexistence. The displacement of everyday activities to cyberspace has generated new criminal opportunities, exposing citizens to attempted fraud and, in general, to illicit content of various kinds, such as hate speech. Similarly, the filtering of information by social network algorithms on the basis of questionable practices such as the exploitation of personal information has tarnished the democratizing possibilities of the Internet with the creation of filter bubbles, which are also suspected of fostering worrying phenomena such as disinformation.
  In the same vein, the automation of life processes through the use of Artificial Intelligence presents profound problems. Apart from being based on the accumulation of data, which could imply a deepening of the surveillance capitalism model, Artificial Intelligence is likely to challenge the principles of equality, privacy or even the right to have a fair trial. In this sense, the rapid implementation of public policies that make use of these systems may imply the sacrifice of important rights if these systems have not been carefully audited and supervised by experts in different disciplines. Moreover, it may imply a displacement of the human element as the center of the decision-making system towards an automation of processes, which not only does not have social trust, but also presents ethical problems.
  In this scenario, we ask ourselves what the position of public policies should be in the face of these phenomena, and how to contribute solid reflections that help to form appropriate responses. Of particular concern are uninformed debates, in which both the benefits and risks of digitalization are exalted without providing valuable data or experience. The novel and complex nature of these challenges makes it difficult to bring together a body of knowledge that can be easily understood by public managers, while at the same time not departing from scientific rigor. Moreover, not only is technical knowledge of the functioning of these technological changes necessary, but it is also necessary to combine it with an ethical and social perspective that can be provided by disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, criminology, and law. Therefore, shared reflections are necessary in a technologically uncertain scenario whose resonance reaches those who will have to make the fundamental decisions in the years to come.
  In this way, the initiative is aligned with national public policy initiatives such as the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy within the framework of Digital Spain 2025, which rightly advocates an interdisciplinary approach to the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence. Likewise, the group seeks to contribute knowledge to face the challenges embodied in the European Commission's Communication "Shaping Europe's Digital Future", i.e.: ensuring that technology is at the service of people; creating a fair and competitive digital economy; and that digitalization helps our society to be democratic, open and sustainable.
  
  
• Aims
  - The group "Public Policies Facing the Challenges of Digital Transformation" aims to create a forum for discussion on issues affecting the digitalization of our societies. Far from being made up of members from a single discipline, the aim is for this forum to include different academics and experts who can mutually enrich each other's research, in a technologically changing scenario in which multidisciplinary is required.
  
  
• Contributions:
  - The panel is open to papers that address the challenges posed by the digitization of our societies and new technologies from a public policy-making perspective. We therefore welcome contributions that help to formulate appropriate public policies in the face of the new challenges posed by digitization, analyzing the risks associated with digitization and suggesting possible solutions. Priority will be given to those based on experiences or empirical studies, combining theoretical reflection with data that allow us to outline a more accurate picture of the problems presented by these technologies. Some of the topics that are of special interest to the Group, although in an exemplary way and not excluding other relevant contributions, are the following: the public response against disinformation campaigns, the toxicity or proliferation of problematic discourses in new digital environments, the use of Artificial Intelligence in border control, to ensure public order and in general as a support for the execution of public policies.
  
  
• Key words:
  Digitalization; Artificial Intelligence; Cyber places; Digital communities
  
  

(4). Public micro-policies that transform the territory
Chairs: Antonio Matías Solanilla. amatias@unizar.es  University ofZaragoza María José Gómez Poyato. mjgomez@unizar.es University of Zaragoza Antonio Eito Mateo. antoni@unizar.es University of Zaragoza

• An international crisis such as the one provoked by the current war in Ukraine has a series of consequences that go beyond what we can call geostrategic policies, global economic crises or any other pompous adjective that may lose its meaning for the ordinary citizen. The consequences of an armed conflict of this caliber, an economic crisis or a natural disaster can provoke migratory movements that, beyond the creation of refugee camps, can lead to the arrival of migrant populations in urban and/or rural areas, transforming their society and landscape.
  The example prior to the current situation can be found, for example, in the first decade of this century with the arrival of migrant population to different localities that until now had received the arrival of these new settlers as an anecdote. For information purposes, we highlight as an example that in the aragonese territory from 2003 to 2019, the migrant population increased from 5.3% to 11.3%, with a peak in 2013 of 12.9% (INE, 2021).
  This fact meant that in a very few years all public micro-policies developed in these localities had to face these new realities and had to innovate and create "ad hoc" resources for this new situation. We still have in our minds the emergence of language immersion projects, awareness projects for the new settlers, intercultural workshops, etc. These programs and projects had to be promoted both by regional and local administrations and by third sector entities that saw the need for their participation. Actions that were developed from the community or sectoral level, driven from the Social Services Center or different Non-Governmental Organizations, but also from Primary Schools and Secondary Schools or Health Centers to name a few areas.
  And we speak of the term "public micropolitics" because we want to refer to the experiences that were or are being designed from the immediacy and urgency of situations arising from these migratory movements, somehow forced by economic or other needs and that affect local host populations, as well as the theoretical approaches that support them.
  Almost twenty years later, when in many cases the population that arrived is already fully settled and all the projects described have been left behind, the reality of the war in Ukraine has come knocking at the door again and our populations have once again become receivers of new residents. On this occasion it is necessary to recognize that the sensitization of the receiving population has not had to be promoted from any area. The media have been in charge of this mission. Also, although it may sound paradoxical, it can be argued that these population movements have been more "orderly" than those that took place in the first years of the millennium. However, the reality can in some ways be described as similar. The need to welcome these new people, to enable their integration into society and to ensure that their needs are covered by the different welfare systems that can attend to them.
  This group aims on the one hand to recognize the work done by local and regional administrations through the centers closest to the citizen as well as the Third Sector entities that during all these years have worked with the migrant population and their insertion in the receiving populations. As well as the experiences that since February 2022 have had to improvise for the attention to the new affected population. But, on the other hand, it is also intended to discuss how the different public policies have had to be transformed to respond to these new realities.
  
  
• Aims
  - To value the design, from the urgency, of the different public policies and how they affect the different population centers receiving new residents.
  - To collect practical experiences of programs, projects or actions related to these situations.
  
  
• Contributions:
  As indicated above, two types of contributions are expected. On the one hand, experiences of both public and private entities or of the third sector that work or have worked in the social insertion of the migrant population in the last twenty years, where the experiences of intervention can be analyzed. And on the other hand, theoretical experiences where the design of public policies elaborated from the different welfare systems or from the local administrations without competences, but always worked from the urgency and immediacy, can be evaluated.
  
  
• Key Words:
  Migratory movements; Public policies; Population location; Social insertion; Welfare system.
  
  

(5).Exclusions, inequalities and collective resistance in the gig economy
Chairs: J. David Moral-Martín (jdavidmoralm@unizar.es), Jaime Minguijón Pablo (jmingui@unizar.es). David Pac Salas (davidpac@unizar.es). Universidad de Zaragoza.

• The current crisis we are experiencing in employment is part of a transformation linked to the emergence of a new type of paid activity in the social order and associated with what is known as industry 4.0 which, in turn, has been given birth to a very specific economic structure, known as the platform economy or gig economy (Srnicek, 2018; Bulchand and Melián, 2018). Its success seems to lie in the fact that it facilitates the possibility of lowering information costs between users (Tirole, 2017), which lowers the final cost and enables discontinuous interactions between supply and demand (Moral-Martín, 2021).
  This current phase of capitalism aims to continue to maintain its profit rates and, to do so, has resorted to the contemporary possibilities offered by technology, especially those of computer applications in different social spheres, but especially in the two-sided market and in the productive process. As a result, a number of online platforms have emerged, defined by the OECD (2019) as a digital service that facilitates interactions between two or more distinct but interdependent groups of users, interacting primarily through the internet.
  This new economic activity has given rise to a very specific type of task performance that is very specific and remunerated per order delivered or service performed.This seems to fit in with the figure of the self-employed worker in world legislation, albeit with certain difficulties, as it includes certain characteristics of commercial relations, such as autonomy, flexibility, voluntariness and simultaneity in the provision of services by the platform worker.
  This situation has led to what has been theorised as a flight from labour law (Valle Muñoz, 2020). In this regard, there are opposing positions among the home delivery food transporters themselves in the work platforms (known as Riders in Spain), as a large group of them, apparently the majority, are committed to the flexibility of contracting that facilitates the mercantile link. However, others defend another (not hegemonic) position, as they have opted for a type of remuneration linked to the total working time spent on their work, whether or not they are actually distributing, and so they claim their status as wage earners and, therefore, their inclusion in labour law.
  Beyond pointing out the existence of opposing positions, the background to the debate lies in the existence of exclusions and inequalities that seem to exist among this working population. These include the difficulties in being represented by trade unions, the lack of certain social benefits, such as unemployment and sick leave, among others, and the absence of adequate management of occupational risks. For this reason, several international organisations and associations have taken an interest in this issue and have decided to study it and focus on the conceptualisation of so-called "atypical" or "non-standard" work (ILO, 2019).
  However, and in parallel to all these issues of public policies and legal systems, there have been a number of relevant developments in the platform workers' sector, such as the ability to organise collective and creative resistance (Moral-Martín, Pac and Minguijón, 2022). All of them have several elements in common, as they put into practice actions and strategies that fall under the umbrella of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE): the aim of seeking a certain social transformation, collective and organisational action (based on the use of various historically proven strategies of resistance), as well as their orientation towards the implementation of creative solutions when it comes to pointing out and showing the contradictions of the system and proposing viable alternatives.
  In this sense, we have several examples of these actions, such as Correscales, La Marea Azul (López-Andreu, 2019), along with other strictly labour mobilisations, such as that of the French McDonald's and Pizza Hut and that of the Roman call centres (Costa et al., 2014: 190). Or the proposals of Equal Care Co-op, Cotabo and CoopCycle in sectors such as domestic work, mobility and home delivery (Fuster, Espelt and Renau, 2021). Alongside these, we note at the national level the Riders cooperative initiatives launched by Mensaka (Barcelona), Eraman (Vitoria), Zámpate (Zaragoza) and La Pájara (Madrid), among others.
  We are therefore witnessing a historic moment which, as on so many other occasions, is generating resistance initiatives which, in the heat of historical social movements and creatively adapted to the new technological realities, are presented as an alternative to this new form of capitalism, with the aim of improving working conditions and opportunities for workers' autonomy.
  
  
• Aims:
  - To analyse existing collective resistance to the processes of exclusion and inequality generated by the gig economy.
  - To get to know the proposals coming from the Social Solidarity Economy.
  - To theorise the phenomenon of collective resistance.
  - Historicise the resistances produced since the origins of the gig economy.
  - To analyse concrete cases of collective resistance.
  - To study processes of private and/or public collective resistance.
  - Diagnose the problems linked to labour relations in the gig economy
  
  
• Contributions
  The session is framed within the framework of studies that reflect on the gig economy and platform capitalism, so contributions aligned with this general theme would be perfectly suitable. More specifically, the Working Group focuses on all those case studies that have managed to raise a kind of resistance to platform capitalism, in a double sense:
  — Resistances of a public nature, through initiatives that have managed to impact on the institutional sphere, producing changes in the reallocation of public resources and legislative reforms.
  — Resistance of a private nature, through the constitution of organisations in the context of the Social Solidarity Economy and platform cooperativism, which have confronted the processes of inequality and exclusion that the current two-sided capitalism has facilitated.
  In this sense, we have practical experiences of home-delivery cooperatives (Riders), together with theorisations and reflections on what collective resistance means, as well as the degree of creativity that they propose in order to seek legal, feasible and fair alternatives and professional outlets in the field of labour relations. All of this together with reflections on the limits of current labour law and the need to extend it to include and protect these new forms of professional exploitation that are platform workers.
  
  
• Key words:
  - Collective resistance, Riders, gig economy, exclusion, inequality.
  

(6). Citizen participation policies, promotion of volunteering and relationship with the third sector: democratic revitalization or a clientelist bureaucratization?
Chairs: Laura Irene Cortés Piraquive, (lauritacopi@gmail.com). PhD candidate of sociology, University of Zaragoza.  Juan David Gómez Quintero, (jdgomez@unizar.es). Lecturer of Psychology and Sociology department, University of Zaragoza

• The public initiative of citizen innovation related to citizen participation, the promotion of volunteering and the relationship with third-sector organizations in the last years are as numerous as diverse. There is no public policy that avoids any of these three categories.
  The discredit of the political parties, the emotional and ideological polarization viralized, the emergence of the national-populist forces and the erosion of some Spanish institutions of the constitutional order, lead to determinates administrations and regional and municipal governments to search actors and narratives that strengthen the democracy. As if it were a redeemer mantra, the citizen participation, and the role of the "social agents or the “co-governance” are invocated to (re)legitimate a consolidated democracy that faces imminent risks.
  However the risks do not only come from the inside of the state. The international framework provides a clear vision of the hazards that hangs over democracies. In February 2022, the presidents of China, Xi Jinping, and Russia, Vladimir Putin affirmed in a joint statement that “A nation can select forms and genuine methods to implement in its home the democracy. […] Some states try to impose their own 'democratic standards' on other peoples” regarding the western values specifically the American values.  
  Thereby, instead of questioning the value and nature of democracy. This concept is being adulterated and re-signified internationality by hybrid or authoritarian regimes. According to The Economist ranking, if China and Russia are democracies with different standards, forms and methods of their own, could these standards and forms be introduced in western democracies? If they have not already? Could the European institutions, and specifically the Spanish institutions resist the changes that are undergoing the national and international interpretative frameworks about the current political regimen?
  A lot of national institutions talk about inclusion, listening ability and of the opening of the participation channels in the formulation processes of its public policies, but in some cases, the inclusion is selective or partial. Listening adapts only to the echoes of the sounding board themselves, and the participation channels narrow in the stage of decisions taken. According to the kind of relationship established, civil society organizations can rise or be seen as counterbalancing democratic, pressure lobbies or patronage paternalism objects.
  The role of the social sciences is to doubt and submits observations of the changes that society and politics are undergoing. In detail, we propose to review and discuss the analysis categories enunciated in the title of this working group. Categories a priori essentials, for the liberal democracies that could be seen submitted to possible authoritarian relationships, of cooperation, cooptation, convenience or rivalry. That is how results in necessary stopping and seeing the possible mechanisms of relationship that could oscillate between civic oversight, and instrumental patronage until the utilitarian marketing between the social organizations and the public institutions.
  This working group pretend to be a debate space to analyse the interaction of the several actors that are involved in the public sphere. In special, it is relevant to analyse the situation of the third sector organizations and volunteering, the social movements, the civil associations, and the general population, in a characteristic scenario by the hazards described above to which is added the rule of law crises and the crisis of salaried workers in the service sector.  
  In addition to the questions raised before, from an international point of view, we are especially interested in some specific questions that could promote this debate. What is the incidence degree of civil society in the direction adopted by public policies? What is the reason for the unusual interest that citizen participation arouses in the crisis context? What repercussions do corruption, disaffection towards political parties and the rise of national populism in conventional forms of participation have? These issues and others proposed by the speakers and assistants will be analysed in this working group..
  
  
• Aims:
  —Formulate proposals that deepen the reflection and research of the mechanisms that strengthen the quality of democracies.
  —Raise current works that analyse the relationships of the democratic institutions and public administrations with social organizations, volunteering entities and the group of entities of the third sector.
  —Proposal empiric studies ended or in development that analyses the formulation, implementation or evaluation of public policies related to citizen participation, volunteering and the third sector.
  
  
• Contributions:
  Consistent and rigorous contributions are expected that expose social research works results obtained or approaches to future research works but that they have a viable and methodologically coherent plan. Likewise, structured and documented essays with academic solvency, thus as exhaustive scientific literature reviews about the subjects covered in the title and the working group substantiation.
  
  
• Keywords
  Citizen participation; Volunteering; Third sector; Public policies
  
  

(6). Innovation and Social Capital: Challenges for Healthy Organisations
Chairs: María Isabel Saz Gil sazgil@unizar.es, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Zaragoza.  Ana Isabel Gil Lacruz anagil@unizar.es, School of Engineering and Architecture, University of Zaragoza.

• The COVID 19 pandemic has led to a profound review of how our health and well-being depend on our psychosocial and socioeconomic context. At the same time, the productive environment has shown the need to address these challenges from a new model of labour intervention that is committed to the development of quality of life, based on diversity and the inclusion of the different agents involved. In this sense, companies play a very important role in the implementation and progress of healthy organisations. However, the assumption of this commitment has evolved over time and should be the subject of scientific study and social discussion. The business and community sectors are not isolated and lacking in ideology. Public policies facilitate and condition the correct implementation of health-promoting measures for their citizens. However, the current fragility of our welfare systems urgently needs to be revitalised in order for modern societies to revitalise their productive, social and vital fabric, and for the most vulnerable communities to redefine and build it on a solid foundation. Addressing these emergencies and the uncertainty they generate has been a major source of suffering and hardship, but also of innovative strategies for collective resilience. In this regard, our organisational environment plays a key role. Our daily life takes place in groups, partners, friends, families, neighbourhoods, companies, institutions. This is why work, leisure and voluntary organisations are an essential reference point for the promotion of health.
  The development of social capital, as the structure and nature of the links that individuals and social organisations establish with each other, has various benefits for both individuals and communities (e.g. educational and occupational attainment, physical, mental, social and environmental health, access to the labour market, social mobility, positive community interactions, etc.
  In relation to occupational health promotion that considers social capital, activities aimed at the health care and well-being of employees contribute to the creation of a socially responsible company. Workers who improve their health through such programmes increase their work commitment and thus their productivity. Workers and company managers agree to act in their own interest as well as in the common interest, creating a win-win starting point.
  To achieve this, it is necessary to establish spaces for innovation and promotion of entrepreneurship where talent and knowledge are the basis for turning ideas into real and sustainable projects.
  This working session is framed within the Health priority of the European Union's Call 2021 "Knowledge Generation Projects" for the Resilience and Recovery Process. Similarly, for the World Health Organization, promoting and protecting health is essential for human well-being and sustained economic and social development. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out the priority lines of action for sustainable development, and in particular SDG 3 (Health and Well-being) is directly related to this commitment..
  
  
• Aims
  The aim of this working group is to analyse and discuss the following questions about the close connection of our social network with our personal and organisational well-being: On which factors does the strengthening of social capital in our organisations depend? What responsibility do organisations have for its development?  How does social capital influence people's health and well-being? And what dimensions does it specifically affect? How do our needs for organisational relationships and social networks change throughout the life cycle and in various groups? What good organisational practices do we have to improve our social capital?  What indicators do we use to evaluate these practices? How do public policies affect their development?.
  
  
• Contributions
  The working group is open to anyone who wishes to learn about the impact of innovation and social capital on the promotion of organisational health and well-being. We approach these topics of reflection from the need to combine different approaches and methodologies. Organisational quality of life and social capital can be systematised from qualitative, quantitative and mixed strategies, from the description of the state of the art and research and also from case studies, empirical studies, longitudinal studies, etc. Our proposal is especially open to studies that provide information on policy applications and organisational interventions in the promotion of integral health with a possible local, sustainable, social and innovative projection .
  
  
• Key Words:
  Social capital; Wellbeing and health ; Healthy organisations; Innovation; Good practice
  
  
  

(8). Public policies and social innovation in rural areas
Chairs: Dra. Patricia Eugenia Almaguer Kalixto, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Zaragoza, Coordinator of the ODS Rural Labs Project (DPZ/FAS/CATCODES) almaguer@unizar.es T.S Rubén Sanz Salgado. Técnico de Juventud en Comarca Campo de Daroca. Profesor Colaborador de la Universidad de Zaragoza. pro.rsanzsalgado@gmail.com

• The integration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 agenda in rural areas is, objectively, slower than in urban areas. Priority has been given to large cities for their promotion and dissemination, where there is also a virtuous circle with the associative fabric of the third sector that has been actively involved in the dissemination of this agenda and its implications. However, there are fundamental challenges to promote sustainable rural communities in accordance with the perspective of the SDGs and the rights approach: aspects such as service coverage, social dynamization, care provision, access to resources, future scenarios for the youth population and the reduction of depopulation continue to be challenges that need to be linked to informed policies based on new social diagnoses in terms of the SDGs.
  If sustainability implies achieving a level of development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the capabilities of future generations, it is essential to analyze and improve town-city relations in a more constructive way.  It is therefore necessary to study gender relations, participation, access to services and social cohesion in rural areas.
  Social innovation can be a useful approach in the search for solutions to the challenges faced by the rural population. It proposes that through participation formats that are more in line with the characteristics of the territory, it can contribute to the transformation of socio-cultural dynamics and improve the quality of life of the population living in this environment.
  In order to propose innovation strategies, it is necessary to have diagnoses and studies of the social needs of these territories, focusing on the people who live there and taking into account their concerns, capacities and knowledge. Information technologies today allow the exchange of experiences, knowledge and methodologies, so this session also aims to be a space for exchange of both critical analysis and good practices where local social agents living in rural areas share through their presentations, information and experience to inform the necessary transformations in the field of public and social policies that concern the rural space.
  This roundtable seeks the presentation of experiences of social innovation in rural areas through formats adapted to the context. We expect proposals linked to experiences of social innovation processes, participatory action research, in the field of public and social policies, programs and/or projects linking the involvement of the beneficiary sector and design of ad hoc services, citizen-science experiences, experiences aimed at the training of individuals, groups and/or collectives to stimulate processes of improvement in quality of life whether in the economic dimension, care, education, etc. all with a clear link to the rural environment.  
  We do not only want a presentation to use, we want the preparation for the congress to be a process where we establish previous contact in order to take advantage of the meeting as much as possible. Therefore, we want to promote collaborative work to get to know the proposals and experiences beforehand so that the participation in the congress can be used to the maximum to ask other types of questions and synergies. We are also looking for interdisciplinary experiences implemented with the participation of local actors where they are the ones who share the work process.
  
  
• Aims
  a) To debate and reflect on the role of social innovation in rural and peri-urban areas, integrating concepts such as territory, identity, production, diversity of human conditions and the relationship with the environment.
  b) To analyze social intervention processes and good practices that are being carried out to make rural communities more sustainable, fair and inclusive through social policies.
  c) To show how the methodology of social intervention is used to face current risks and challenges in the rural environment, taking into account the profile of groups and situations of vulnerability.
  d) Strengthen analysis networks to discuss the challenges and difficulties of promoting the SDGs and the 2030 agenda in rural areas based on international experiences.
  
  
• Contributions
  Proposals are expected linked to experiences of social innovation processes, participatory action research, in the field of public and social policies, programs and/or projects linking the involvement of the beneficiary sector and the design of ad hoc services, citizen-science experiences, experiences aimed at the training of individuals, groups and/or collectives to stimulate processes of improvement in quality of life whether in the economic dimension, care, education, etc. all with a clear link to the rural environment.
  
  
• Key Words
  Social innovation in rural áreas; Rural public policies; Citizen science; Agenda 2030; Participatory approach.
  
  

(9). Globalization and its effects on the rural milieu: the role of public policies
Chairs: Dr. Pedro J. Escriche Bueno, Extraordinary Collaborator, Faculty of Social and Labor Sciences, University of Zaragoza/Center for Rural Studies and International Agriculture (CERAI), pescrich@unizar.es .

• Globalization is having undeniable effects on our rural environment that are developing in multiple areas and at multiple levels. On the one hand, competition from cheaper agricultural products coming from other latitudes has led to a situation of crisis in the main economic activity of our rural areas: food production. This has led to the massive abandonment of farms and the concentration of a large part of production in fewer and fewer hands, with ever greater intensification and technification and less use of labor. The consequence is a lower possibility of employment in the primary sector, which is an important element that explains the depopulation process that most of the rural areas in our country are undergoing.
  On the other hand, global migratory processes represent an opportunity to repopulate rural areas, attracting populations from other countries that allow new life to be breathed into aging areas that were losing services. However, the question arises as to what is happening to the traditional cultures of these peoples and territories. Public policies are favoring the settlement of foreign populations to combat depopulation, while promoting cultural policies.
  Likewise, digitalization and new technologies can enhance the attractiveness of rural areas for new professionals in these sectors, who can afford to work remotely, but who require the maintenance of health, educational and cultural services, as well as good communications infrastructures.
  The need for the accelerated energy transition we are experiencing towards more sustainable forms of energy production is generating tensions in rural areas, in the face of the avalanche of wind, solar or methane gas energy projects, among others. These projects are not compatible, most of the time, with the maintenance of primary sector activities or with the important rural tourism sector.
  In all these areas, public policies operate in one direction or another.
  Thus, in the productive sphere, public policies have favored, through the Common Agricultural Policy, the concentration of ownership and the growth of farms to favor their competitiveness in the global market, while at the same time promoting the causes of depopulation. On the other hand, public policies are also promoting the return of young people to the countryside with aid to new farms or to the children of farmers who continue with the activity. Likewise, the transformation of intensive production systems to more sustainable systems is being favored.
  In the migratory aspect, public policies are favoring the settlement of foreign populations to combat depopulation, while at the same time promoting cultural policies. On the other hand, greater investment in communications infrastructure is needed to bring essential services to rural areas in order to attract new populations, such as quality mobile telephony and broadband Internet.
  In the energy sector, institutions are promoting the launching of sustainable production initiatives that will enable the country to become less dependent on oil derivatives. At the same time, regulations protect the environment and the landscape, as well as flora and fauna. 
  In all these areas, and in many more, the role of public policies is essential to explain the situation of a rural environment that is subject to the ups and downs of the world context as a result of globalization processes that have particularly affected it. It is therefore necessary to analyze these policies, their evolution and the effects they are pursuing and, in the end, achieving.
  
  
• Aims
  a) To debate and reflect on the effects of globalization on the rural milieu in aspects such as population, identity, production, diversity of human conditions and the relationship with the environment. b) To analyze the role that public policies have played and continue to play in the amplification or mitigation of these effects. c) To propose innovative public policies that favor the improvement of living conditions in rural areas, counteracting the negative effects of the international context and enhancing the positive ones. d) Show current proposals and examples of positive innovative policies.
  
  
• Contributions
  Contributions are expected that analyze the evolution and current reality of the rural context from the point of view of the influence of the international context and globalization, that review the role of public policies in these processes, that propose alternatives for action from the institutions and that show ongoing experiences that involve innovative proposals for action in the rural context.
  
  
• Key Words
  Rural environment; Globalization; Rural public policies; Agenda 2030
  
  

(10). Populisms and public policies
Chair: María José González Ordovás. mjgonza@unizar.es,Law School. Zaragoza's University

• In recent years the concept of populism has been resized and has gone from the singular to the plural. Any analysis of democracy that is carried out in the present requires a reflection on the prominence that populisms have achieved in the most diverse latitudes of the world. Investigating the causes that have led to the reach of the populist phenomenon and discerning what may be in common and what is different in the so-called left-wing and right-wing populisms are mandatory steps prior to the study of the public policies that both deploy where they have achieved heights of power. Precisely one of the aspects of greatest interest when selecting this subject of study is the fact that it brings together current theoretical approaches in the national and transnational sphere and its translation to legal and social life..
  
  
• Aims
  1.- Distinguish between the different types of populism
  2.- Addressing the causes of the return to the political scene of populisms
  3.- Analyze the various public and social policies implemented by populisms
  4.- Reflect on the legal, political and social consequences of said policies
  
  
• Contributions
  In this panel, the participation of researchers from the legal, economic and social spheres makes special sense, since the consequences of public and social policies developed by populism affect all three spheres. It is logical that a specialized analysis comes from each of these areas in an autonomous way, hence the convergence and pooling of all of them proposed in this panel is of great importance as an ideal means to achieve an integrating view of the consequences that populist policies can project on the legal, economic and social spheres. .
  
  Key Words:
  1.- On the concept and types of populism and its effect on democracy; 2.- On the causes of the rise of populism on a global scale; 3.- On the public and social policies developed by the different populisms; 4.- On the consequences of said policies.
  

(11). Development cooperation policies: local dialogues for global challenges
Chairs: Dr. Pedro J. Escriche Bueno, Extraordinary Collaborator, Faculty of Social and Labor Sciences, University of Zaragoza/Center for Rural Studies and International Agriculture (CERAI), pescrich@unizar.es Dr. Patricia Eugenia Almaguer Kalixto, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Zaragoza, Coordinator of the ODS Rural Labs Project (DPZ/FAS/CATCODES). almaguer@unizar.es.

• Reducing the amount allocated to development cooperation is a permanent political temptation that is argued under the thinking of "first us and then the others". There are always more urgent local needs, especially when they are set against those of someone far away and different. However, as the institutions in charge of articulating these strategies tell us, "international development cooperation policies ... [are] the main translation into public policies of the commitment of their citizens to the countries and communities that suffer the most from inequality and poverty in its multiple dimensions" (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, 2022). 
  In this sense, development cooperation policies are crucial to contribute to the new global social contract marked by the 2030 Agenda and the necessary articulation of alliances to achieve its fulfillment. Being of particular importance as instruments of such policies, the current V Master Plan and the preliminary draft Law on Cooperation for Sustainable Development and Global Solidarity, approved in January 2022, which updates the Spanish development cooperation policy to the commitments of the 2030 Agenda. 
  This session calls for presentations that can range from reflections on the evolution of cooperation policies to their effects on specific cases. Presentations that critically analyze the implementation of different cooperation policies are also sought. We welcome analyses and experiences from the decentralized cooperation that includes the Autonomous Communities and Local Entities, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGODs), trade unions, the business sector or universities, among others.
  As well as experiences of cooperation management via projects and programs implemented. In the case of Spain, these actions have geographical priorities set by the V Master Plan, which establishes the type of cooperation to be carried out depending on the particularities of each country: Least Developed Countries of Association, Middle Income Countries of Association and Advanced Cooperation Countries. To this end, it proposes concentrating on Latin America, the Maghreb, West Africa and the Sahel.
  It is also worth mentioning the approval, in July 2020, of the Spanish Cooperation's Joint Response Strategy to the COVID-19 crisis, with the aim of addressing the multidimensional crisis caused by the pandemic in order to achieve a transformative recovery. However, these expectations clash with budgetary reality.  Cooperation policies are linked to budgets that are permanently at the center of local debate. A budget proposal that is backward in terms of its impact on solving global problems.
  
  
• Aims
  —To analyze current trends in development cooperation policies.
  —To discuss the evolution of cooperation policies and their effects on specific cases.
  —To present analyses and experiences from decentralized cooperation, discussing the current challenges of implementation as well as the articulation with current development policies
  
  
• Contributions
  This session calls for presentations that may range from reflections on the evolution of cooperation policies to their effects on specific cases. Presentations that critically analyze the implementation of different cooperation policies are also sought. We welcome analyses and experiences from the decentralized cooperation that includes the Autonomous Communities and Local Entities, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGODs), trade unions, the business sector or universities, among others.  As well as experiences of cooperation management via projects and programs implemented.
  
  
• Key Words
  Cooperation policies; Decentralized cooperation; Education for global citizenship; Agenda 2030